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Quotes About Shocking

My father was swallowed alive by his own anus. It was a terrible way to go.
~ Ryan Reynolds
Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic hair onto a painting and sold it for a million dollars.
~ Lisa Kleypas
And, till we came to Doncières, M. de Charlus, without any fear of shocking his audience, would speak sometimes in the plainest terms of morals which, he declared, for his own part he did not consider either good or evil. He did this from cunning, to shew his breadth of mind, convinced as he was that his own morals aroused no suspicion in the minds of the faithful.
~ Marcel Proust
I borrowed a quote from Oscar Wilde and put it at the top of the menu: "To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people—that is all.
~ Marco Pierre White
We couldn't arrest him if he was shooting strangers with one hand while jerking off into the American flag with the other.
~ Marcus Sakey
A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.
~ Margery Allingham
What's the difference between Justin Bieber and an abortion? I'd pay to see an abortion.
~ Unknown
I only hope you are never tempted to venture into the library's Forbidden, Unspeakably Dangerous, Never-To-Be-Checked-Out-By-Anyone Section to peruse our secret copy of that most shocking and insanity-inducing of ancient tomes, typeset at a point-size convenient to those with impaired vision—the Large-Print Necronomicon!
~ Unknown
This book," he began, "is very, very unsuitable." He paused, then went on. "In fact, in my whole life, I have never read or even imagined something so unsuitable." Here he stopped, still staring at me. He held the book up slightly and pointed at it with his chin. "May I keep it?
~ Mark Salzman
I'd like to punch out a really old lady. There'd be no repercussions.
~ Noel Fielding
When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.
~ Rob Bell
If I really got my ribs removed, I would have been busy sucking my own di.. on the wonder years instead of chasing winnie cooper. Besides, I wouldn't have sucked other people's di..s on stage, either. I would have been sucking my own. Plus, who really has time to be killing puppies when you can be sucking your own di..? I think I'm gonna call the surgeon in the morning.
~ Marilyn Manson
This article is going to be very egotistical and MacLanesque and maybe somewhat shocking besides, so I strongly advise divers citizens of Butte not to read it. It occurs to me that some of the things I write do not agree with the constitutions of the said citizens - it seems to be bad for their livers - hence this preliminary note of warning. So now if you go right on and read it and it affects your liver unpleasantly, don't blame me.
~ Mary MacLane
You know, you're the sort of woman who ought to be raped. It might do you good
~ Unknown
In the meantime, though, the race for the Republican Party presidential nomination sure seems funny. The event known around the world as hashtagGOPClownCar is improbable, colossal, spectacular and shocking; epic, monumental, heinous and disgusting. It's like watching 17 platypuses try to mount the queen of England. You can't tear your eyes away from it. It
~ Matt Taibbi
Your mom shoulda told you she was just the diseased old slit all the local hobos used as a cum dumpster when they drank away their money and couldn't afford new porno mags.
~ Unknown
Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' than the last one. It was all so confusing, nobody seemed to know what to do.
~ Max Brooks
Near a large inn, the 'Roter Krug,' stood a barn and to each of its two doors a naked woman was nailed through the hands, in a crucified posture.
~ Max Hastings
I know. It's shocking to think that the government would try to stick its nose in our ladyparts.
~ Megan McCafferty
There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.
~ Michael Phelps
It's submission," Rediger murmured. "The shocking and simple idea, which had never been so forcefully expressed, that the summit of human happiness resides in the most absolute submission.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report, "There's a naked person outside!"
~ Mike Nichols
It was a slaughterhouse, the most horrific scene I have ever witnessed...
~ Unknown
Combining apocalyptic visions of God's coming kingdom, and public service within the present one, appears shocking to the Enlightenment mindset.
~ Unknown